Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My reprieve could make me somehow feel quite snubbed . |
| 2 | Now his hands are holding my head , holding me in , helping me not to fly away , apart , dissolve . |
| 3 | Yet the obvious question stands : do the men and women who formulate the policies , make the decisions , and try to implement them really matter so little' ? |
| 4 | Building them often took twice as long as planned , and costs were two to three times the original estimate . |
| 5 | They usually started out about now , and after catching me up went forward an agreed distance to make camp . |
| 6 | ‘ No , I do n't think I ever looked inside . |
| 7 | Yes , right to , to and , and you could even go on farther , but I do n't think I ever went any further I did n't have time . |
| 8 | I do n't think I ever moved so fast in all my life . |
| 9 | I mean I already do enough ex enough exercise . |
| 10 | it comes to a point sometimes , I mean I even noticed then like when they 're wearing all your clothes right ? |
| 11 | Well they do n't usually issue , I mean I usually make so I ask for one in plenty of time . |
| 12 | No problem — you must understand that I 've aged a little , I mean I still look roughly the same . |
| 13 | Alistair said , ‘ And then you want me quickly to buy as many publicly held shares as possible . ’ |
| 14 | That does n't mean to say that you 'd have let them necessarily get away with it on the spot but you you 're still going to do a persuasive tact but in the end if they say no fine . |
| 15 | The 'Boks may be ring rusty but , says JOHN ROBBIE , they are top-heavy with talent and anyone who writes them off does so at their peril … |
| 16 | But there 's more to these 26th November recordings than famous and soon-to-be-famous names : take such as Kogo , Now 's the Time , Warming up a Riff and Billie 's Bounce represent Parker at what one might consider his recently matured best . |
| 17 | I do n't know you only put so many down ca n't you ? |
| 18 | Why has she not spoken long ago in the right quarter ? |
| 19 | ‘ D' you really think so ? ’ |
| 20 | Hang on just a minute do n't go away I want you back stay there Alan . |
| 21 | okay and we 've got opposite over a hundred and twenty at the moment and we want we just want opposite . |
| 22 | I expect they still do so . |
| 23 | Calm and svelte , stealthy as a cat in his movements , he seemed to approach sex as a form of research , favouring techniques of foreplay so subtle and prolonged that Robyn occasionally dozed off in the middle of them , and would wake with a guilty start to find him still crouched studiously over her body , fingering it like a box of index cards . |
| 24 | Trudy had put up with his nonsense with great patience but when she found him busily working away in the region of her left ear it was too much . |
| 25 | An astonished officer found him still clinging grimly to the controls as he trundled along at a snail 's pace . |
| 26 | The rest of the lads got a fair distance down the freeway en route to Toronto before they realised they 'd lost him , went back , and found him still sitting there like a tit in a trance nodding away to his Walkman . |
| 27 | McEllhoney found him still lying there more than two hours later . |
| 28 | It helped her not to think too much . |
| 29 | They helped her not to think too much . |
| 30 | An hour later , Tracy and Miss Ludlow helped him secretly slip away from the hospital to spend two days in a secluded Miami retreat soaking up the sun before returning to Newmarket . |